194 research outputs found
Reasoning about Knowledge in Linear Logic: Modalities and Complexity
In a recent paper, Jean-Yves Girard commented that âit has been a long time since philosophy has stopped intereacting with logicâ[17]. Actually, it has no
Semantics for first-order affine inductive data types via slice categories
Affine type systems are substructural type systems where copying of
information is restricted, but discarding of information is permissible at all
types. Such type systems are well-suited for describing quantum programming
languages, because copying of quantum information violates the laws of quantum
mechanics. In this paper, we consider a first-order affine type system with
inductive data types and present a novel categorical semantics for it. The most
challenging aspect of this interpretation comes from the requirement to
construct appropriate discarding maps for our data types which might be defined
by mutual/nested recursion. We show how to achieve this for all types by taking
models of a first-order linear type system whose atomic types are discardable
and then presenting an additional affine interpretation of types within the
slice category of the model with the tensor unit. We present some concrete
categorical models for the language ranging from classical to quantum. Finally,
we discuss potential ways of dualising and extending our methods and using them
for interpreting coalgebraic and lazy data types
Focused Proof-search in the Logic of Bunched Implications
The logic of Bunched Implications (BI) freely combines additive and
multiplicative connectives, including implications; however, despite its
well-studied proof theory, proof-search in BI has always been a difficult
problem. The focusing principle is a restriction of the proof-search space that
can capture various goal-directed proof-search procedures. In this paper, we
show that focused proof-search is complete for BI by first reformulating the
traditional bunched sequent calculus using the simpler data-structure of nested
sequents, following with a polarised and focused variant that we show is sound
and complete via a cut-elimination argument. This establishes an operational
semantics for focused proof-search in the logic of Bunched Implications.Comment: 18 pages conten
Stone-Type Dualities for Separation Logics
Stone-type duality theorems, which relate algebraic and
relational/topological models, are important tools in logic because -- in
addition to elegant abstraction -- they strengthen soundness and completeness
to a categorical equivalence, yielding a framework through which both algebraic
and topological methods can be brought to bear on a logic. We give a systematic
treatment of Stone-type duality for the structures that interpret bunched
logics, starting with the weakest systems, recovering the familiar BI and
Boolean BI (BBI), and extending to both classical and intuitionistic Separation
Logic. We demonstrate the uniformity and modularity of this analysis by
additionally capturing the bunched logics obtained by extending BI and BBI with
modalities and multiplicative connectives corresponding to disjunction,
negation and falsum. This includes the logic of separating modalities (LSM), De
Morgan BI (DMBI), Classical BI (CBI), and the sub-classical family of logics
extending Bi-intuitionistic (B)BI (Bi(B)BI). We additionally obtain as
corollaries soundness and completeness theorems for the specific Kripke-style
models of these logics as presented in the literature: for DMBI, the
sub-classical logics extending BiBI and a new bunched logic, Concurrent Kleene
BI (connecting our work to Concurrent Separation Logic), this is the first time
soundness and completeness theorems have been proved. We thus obtain a
comprehensive semantic account of the multiplicative variants of all standard
propositional connectives in the bunched logic setting. This approach
synthesises a variety of techniques from modal, substructural and categorical
logic and contextualizes the "resource semantics" interpretation underpinning
Separation Logic amongst them
A linear algebra approach to linear metatheory
Linear typed λ-calculi are more delicate than their simply typed siblings when it comes to metatheoretic results like preservation of typing under renaming and substitution. Tracking the usage of variables in contexts places more constraints on how variables may be renamed or substituted. We present a methodology based on linear algebra over semirings, extending McBride's kits and traversals approach for the metatheory of syntax with binding to linear usage-annotated terms. Our approach is readily formalisable, and we have done so in Agda
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